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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a lot of friends that went to Brown and they all loved it. The impression I have is that they liked Brown as an actual experience -- the open curriculum, the other students, the overall "feel" of the place -- in a way that my friends who went to HYPS for the most part do not. Those schools seems to be "liked" for the results they produce and the prestige among the broad public they have -- in short, name recognition, even the bus driver is impressed, etc. -- and less so for the experience students have there. Just my observation.

Brown seems pretty unique among the elite schools in the US, it doesn't have the prominence of Harvard obv, but for a certain kind of family and student it seems to have a strong and distinct "brand," as others have put it.

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Thus doesn’t resonate with me, both as an HYPS graduate and as someone who knows many later HYPS graduates who enjoyed their undergraduate years.

Rather, in my observation, Brown graduates tend to be concerned that their school, with its open curriculum and rather paltry endowment, will be seen as a lesser institution and compensate by emphasizing the Brown “experience.”  I don’t blame them, but it does come across as a bit contrived at times.  [/quote]

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